Age Inappropriate Art is when a teen/child either sings a song or has a skit or is involved in some other performance that could be considered not suitable for someone so young. Normally PlayedForLaughs. Subdivision of TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior. Compare AgeInappropriateDress, where a character is wearing something that doesn't fit his age. If it's an adult suggesting it, then it's CorruptionOfAMinor. See also FromTheMouthsOfBabes.----!!Examples:

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[[folder:AnimeAndManga]]* Happens in ''Manga/DetroitMetalCity'' when a fan of the band brings his underaged daughter to a concert, who happily begins singing some of the band's vilest songs after the concert in full view of the other fans (and the protagonist out of costume). The fans are elated. Negishi is horrified.[[/folder]]

[[folder:ComicBooks]]* The Australian version of ''Magazine/{{MAD}}'' commented on this in its satire of ''YoungTalentTime''. One of the performers announces that he is about to sing "The Lady is a Tramp", commenting that Frank Sinatra performed song when playing a womanizing nightclub owner in ''PalJoey'' "so it should suit a callow fourteen year old right down to the ground".[[/folder]]

[[folder: FanFic]]* In the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' fan fiction "[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5528968/1/The_9th_Grade_Blues The 9th Grade Blues]]", Emily tries this and fails horribly. A few of the other kids, on the other hand...[[/folder]]

[[folder: {{Film}}]]* In ''Film/LittleMissSunshine'', Olive performs a striptease at a beauty pageant to the song "Super Freak", complete with moves her grandpa taught her for the routine. Everybody but her family, the possible-pedophile in the audience, and the actual beauty pageant winner acting as a judge is mortified by how it highlights the objectification of all the young girls.* In ''{{Film/Rushmore}}'', one of the plays Max puts on at his high school is a stage adaptation of ''Serpico'', complete with gun-waving and bags of drugs.%% * In-universe example: ''{{Hamlet 2}}''* ''Film/DonnieDarko'': The local New Age Guru [=MCs=] an event where local elementary school girls perform pop songs en masse in heavy makeup and skimpy clothes. The parents love it. Turns out he's a pedophile.* In ''Film/JerseyGirl'', the main character and his daughter have to do a scene from a musical at a school pageant. Everyone, ''everyone'' else does "Memory" from ''{{Cats}}''. The scene they do? "God That's Good", the ''human meat-pie making song'' from ''Theatre/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet''. The crowd's reaction is at least half the joke.* In ''Film/TheAddamsFamily'', Uncle Fester helps the kids put together a wonderful example for a school talent show.* ''Film/MontyPythonsTheMeaningOfLife'' has a song where many children (ranging from five to sixteen) sing about how the Catholic religion doesn't believe in artificial contraception, the title and chorus of the song being "Every Sperm is Sacred".* In ''The End'', Wendell (Burt Reynolds) goes to see his daughter (Kristy [=MacNichol=]) at her school, or gym, and finds her entertaining her peers with a dance routine Wendell would think belongs here.* The ''All I want for Christmas Is You'' performance from ''{{Film/Love Actually}}'' is dangerously close.[[/folder]]

[[folder: {{Literature}}]]* In the sequel to ''Confessions of a Hollywood Starlet'', a few kids at Claudia Morgan's school sang "TheInternetIsForPorn" From ''Theatre/AvenueQ''.* In ''Literature/JaneEyre'', Adele, Mr. Rochester's eight-year-old (or so) ward's "accomplishment" is the singing of a French song about a woman who has been betrayed by her lover, and plans to wear all her jewels and best clothes to the ball that night to show him how little she cares.* ''TheDayOfTheLocust'': Would-be child star Adore Loomis sings the raunchy blues song "Mama Don' Wan' No Peas" and has the moves to go with it.* ''Literature/TheHungerGames'': In ''Mockingjay'', when she was little, Katniss sang "The Hanging Tree" and didn't understand why it upset her mother so much that she banned it. Years later, she realized that the song is sung from the perspective of a dead man calling out to his lover to come join him in death, the implied theme being that a life of torture and separation from each other isn't worth living.* In ''Literature/TheNameOfTheWind'', first book of ''Literature/TheKingkillerChronicle'', the young Kvothe picks up a nursery rhyme about a "Lady Lackless" that, upon second thought, turns out to be full of DoubleEntendre. His mother calls him on it, and he takes the lesson to heart.** (Of course, there is also a WildMassGuess that his mother stepped in because [[spoiler:said Lady Lackless is either her sister or she herself]].)[[/folder]]

[[folder: LiveActionTV]]* There was an episode of ''DanceFever'' where a girl of about 6 lip-synced and danced to {{Madonna}}'s "Like a Virgin".* A episode of ''Series/GroundedForLife'' featured the teenage daughter performing "Big Spender" at her [[ChristianityIsCatholic Catholic school]]'s talent show.* ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment'' featured an [[IncestIsRelative uncle and a niece and later an aunt and a nephew]] sing "Afternoon Delight" by Starland Vocal Band.** The Warden's screenplay acted out by very young children.* A lot of ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' characters and sketches have had this over the 37 years ([[LongRunners and counting]]) it's been on the air. A recent example appeared on the third time Creator/ScarlettJohansson hosted, which featured a sketch about up-and-coming child actresses (played by Johansson and feature player Vanessa Bayer) performing monologues and famous scenes from movies that aren't for children, such as ''Film/BrokebackMountain'', ''The Color Purple'', ''A Few Good Men'', and ''On the Waterfront''.* On ''HeadOfTheClass'', the students were putting on a production of ''{{Hair}}'' and a discussion of the NudeScene came up. Mr. Moore resolved it. First he said that "all the people who think we should do the nude scene stand over here, and all the people who don't think we should do the nude scene stand over here," [[AllWomenArePrudes thus separating the boys from the girls]]. Then he said, "OK, those of you who want the nude scene - get naked!" The boys then decided they didn't want to do the scene.* Similarly, there's an off-screen performance of ''{{Theatre/Hair}}'' ("'Black Boys Are Delicious' was quite well-done!") and an on-screen performance of ''Salome'' by elementary school kids on ''Series/TwoGuysAGirlAndAPizzaPlace''.* ''{{Minipops}}'': How's this for a show concept? It's on a mainstream channel at teatime. It features hit songs of recent years being sung by prepubescent children in costumes copied from the original artists and full makeup. Hit songs include, for particularly [[{{Squick}} squickyness]], "Nine to Five" by Sheena Easton, in which the singer relates how hard her husband works, but then she's cooked him dinner and they have sex. British television, ChannelFour, early 1980s.* Several episodes of the current revival of ''Series/BeverlyHills90210'' centered around high school students preparing a production of the musical ''SpringAwakening'', a play that includes a semi-explicit not-very-consensual love-making scene, masturbation, a gay kiss, a child-on-child beating scene, a parent-on-child beating scene, and a song all about incestual sexual abuse.* One episode of ''Series/NedsDeclassifiedSchoolSurvivalGuide'' had Ned accidentally painting an orange naked lady in art class.* All of ''Series/WonderShowzen''.* ''Series/{{Tosh0}}'' came up with a novel way to get around [[MoralGuardians Standards and Practices]] and still show [[ShockSite Famous Awful]] Internet Porn Clips: [[http://tosh.comedycentral.com/video-clips/porn-reenactments Disturbingly adorable reenactments with kids]].-->'''Daniel Tosh:''' The great thing about doing this thing in Hollywood is that there is no shortage of awful parents who'll let their kids do anything for a SAG card.* On one episode of ''Series/TheCosbyShow'', Rudy walked around singing along to a song with lyrics something like, "We're gonna do it all night long, I want you to do me". Cliff asks her if she knows what "it" is, and Rudy says that "it" is kissing and holding hands. Cliff decides to tell her that "it" means doing homework.* On ''Series/{{Copper}}'', former pre-teen prostitute Annie sings a very inappropriate rendition of "Mary Had A Little Lamb", much to the horror of the woman who took her in.[[/folder]]

[[folder:{{Music}}]]* ''KidzBop'' is a much-reviled album series of hit songs being sung by children. The songs chosen apparently weren't screened carefully beforehand, as they include Music/GreenDay's "Boulevard of Broken Dreams", {{Music/Pink}}'s "Who Knew", Music/LilWayne's "Let it Rock" and [=FloRida's=] "Club Can't Handle Me", among others.** Some singers catch on to this, however. Pete Wentz from Music/FallOutBoy refused to greenlight a cover of "Dance Dance", due to it being inappropriate.* Depending upon one's personal morality standards, there have been cases of under-18 singers performing songs about issues far beyond what some might consider a 14, 15, 16, etc. year-old to have knowledge or experience with. In recent years, such criticism has been leveled against performers such as Music/MileyCyrus and Music/BritneySpears, but similar complaints were aimed back in the 1960s at singers such as Annette Funicello and Lesley Gore, too.* Unfortunately too common in VisualKei as a result of a confluence of factors: artist or fan parents often being outsiders to "normal" society anyway in some way or other, Japanese culture being ''far'' less likely to freak out about a kid saying something "dirty" or "inappropriate" or even sexual or violent and more likely to treat it as a joke, and fan or artist parents who want a kid to share the interest sometimes letting them be around people they shouldn't and see stuff they shouldn't too early. As a result, there are ''too'' many covers of Visual Kei songs most Westerners would freak out at even a 13 year old knowing if they knew the lyrics.** One of the worst is the three year old covering "Rocket Dive" by [[Music/HidetoMatsumoto hide]]. The song is primarily about IntercourseWithYou, including a description of climaxing onto someone's chest.** Possibly in an attempt to avert this from happening (and make more money), some bands have released non-vocal instrumental tracks of "inappropriate" songs. Which works for those Visual artist and fan parents that have, say, a young guitarist or drummer or bassist. Not so much for those who want to show off their kid's vocal skills.* Deliberately done in music videos: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AwoWyEnaMs A school pageant]] about Joan of Arc, Conquistadors, and [[NoPartyLikeADonnerParty the Donner party]]; [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBI_NNeBeXQ kids playing at]] TheWarOnTerror, and one with little kids dressed as and lip-syncing Notorious BIG and Co.[[/folder]]

[[folder: RealLife]]* TruthInTelevision. Besides occurring throughout history, many kids from TheNineties and TheNoughties (2000s) sang some of the dirtier popular songs with their friends.* One local music festival had a 14-year-old girl singing "When You're Good to Momma" from ''Theatre/{{Chicago}}''. ''Not'' okay.* Music/CourtneyLove auditioned for the Mouseketeers when she was young. The issue was that she was reciting a Creator/SylviaPlath poem for her audition.* The unsolved murder of Jon-Benet Ramsey put a harsh spotlight on the world of "Little Miss" pageants (see TLC's ''Series/ToddlersAndTiaras'') and the sexual undertones of putting preschool-age girls into costumes, hairstyles and makeup mimicking those of, glitzy, often raunchy, grown-up stage performers.* Many, many elementary schools have the choir sing "Seasons of Love" from {{Theatre/RENT}} at the end of the year. We pray that they never look up "La Vie Boheme". Or "Contact". Or "Out Tonight"...* In a child-care situation, it's not uncommon to hear 5-year-olds singing pop songs, such as "Whistle" by Flo Rida.* Korn guitarist Brain 'Head' Welch has said that hearing his young daughter singing their song A.D.I.D.A.S. (All Day I Dream About Sex) was one of the things that led to him leaving the band.* The British Tv show [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minipops Minipops]] was pulled from the air because of this.* In a more physical sense, due to developmental and bodily growth issues, it's ''strongly'' advised not to allow someone to begin drumming on a real kit or in some styles until ''at least'' 13-16. Someone who starts drumming "for real" earlier than this, especially at really fast speed or doing blast beats, is ''far'' more likely to injure a still-developing body ''and'' injure themselves more in later life as well. Despite this, and despite the drummers that have likely suffered the results of it, one can find ''too many'' child and preteen drummers doing ''exactly'' what they should ''not'' be doing in a quick browse of Youtube or similar.[[/folder]]

[[folder: WebComics]]* "Little Clarissa" (not [[Series/ClarissaExplainsItAll that Clarissa]], one hopes; she looks like a preschool [[HeyArnold Helga Pataki]] but let's hope she's not her either): Clarissa's teacher finds a drawing of [[http://www.whatisdeepfried.com/COMIX/Family/PAGE1.html a wolf attacking a chipmunk]]. [[spoiler: It's Clarissa's way of expressing that her dad violently rapes her every night, and then the rest of her pictures become fearsome.]]* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'': Equius the troll and his obsession with [[BiggerIsBetterInBed well-endowed]] [[UsefulNotes/FurryFandom "muscle beast"]] paintings, which are [[ValuesDissonance considered classical art on his planet.]]** Also, Dave's original comic was about sex, drugs and random violence. He was twelve at the time. His [[SweetBroAndHellaJeff subsequent project]] isn't much better.* A very large number of things in ''Webcomic/{{Sonichu}}''...except it's not supposed to be a parody...* In ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'', the eponymous sergeant at one point offers his likeness to a line of tie-in merchandise by Strohl Munitions (who make [[{{BFG}} his infamous plasma gun]]). This includes the ''Strohl Munitions Plasma Cannon Coloring Book''. Even Schlock recognizes something might be up with that. The marketing rep explains that [[DoNotDoThisCoolThing the text is all about how kids shouldn't play with plasma guns ]] while the ''paratext'' is all about how they should grow up so they can play with plasma guns.[[/folder]]

[[folder: WesternAnimation]]* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' is full of this. From Butters' song "What What (in the Butt)" to the Nativity scene with a graphic birth scene.** One of the best is Cartman doing a monologue from ''Film/{{Scarface|1983}}''.** [[InnocentInnuendo Fingerbang]].--> '''Stan''': Dude, what does 'Fingerbang' mean?--> '''Cartman''': It's when you make a gun with your hands and go BANG, dude.* An early (well, [[LongRunner comparatively]]) episode of ''TheSimpsons'' had one kid performing "My Ding-a-Ling" as part of a talent show. He got yanked off stage.[[/folder]]----